Best Bets | Tuned-up Maserati

Maserati is an instrumental rock band that works with so many textures and templates that it's difficult to nail down, which is a good thing. Songs can veer from trippy post-rock to atmospheric psychedelia to an intense kind of dance music that sounds as if it grew up on Kraftwerk and metal.

What's striking about the band, which was founded in Athens, Ga., before moving to Brooklyn, is the range of emotions that it inspires without using words as guideposts. At its best, Maserati's songs build, release, imply and infer with an uncanny sense of drama that can sometimes leave you feeling as if you just heard a good story.

The band, which records for Louisville native Jeremy deVine's Temporary Residence Limited label, has a new album in "Maserati VII," its first with drummer Mike Albanese. The centerpiece is "Abracadabracab," an 11-minute powerhouse.